Hacker's ramblings

The common consensus is that iPhone screen is too small. For example a Finnish journalist wrote (article is in Finnish), that "Soon iPhone will suit me too". As everybody is expecting a bigger screen iPhone to be released. I've had enough and will blog about that.

I'm saying, that the iPhone screen-size is pretty good and doesn't need to grow much bigger. I'm agreeing what Tim Cook says Apple struck on right screen size with iPhone 5. Currently 4S and 5S -sized phones fit into everybody's pocket. Example:

Image courtesy of iClothing.

Or in a Wired review Samsung Galaxy Note - Big Phone, Big Hassle:

Image courtesy of Wired

If that doesn't look ridiculous, then I don't know what does. That's the direction you want to go by crying "too small screen" all the time!

Let's study history a bit. In May 2014 Apple Insider had an article Before Apple's iPhone was too small, it was it was too "monstrously" big. Yeah, that's right! There is evidence, that the screen size was never just the right size. Still a number of studies show, that people are not happy with current screen sizes. Example:
In this article How would you feel if the iPhone 6 didn't have a bigger screen?
"I can say my iPhone usage has decreased over time because it's just too small for me now"
- Chris Parsons

Or example 2:
People want their next phone to have a big-a** screen, survey says

Or example 3, Sales of those ridiculously big phables are way up:
Phablets Will Outnumber Tablet Sales Three To One By 2018

So, pretty much everything is in line with people screaming to have bigger screens for their mobile appliance. How about a reality check. ZDnet has a review of best tablets (Top Android tablets (April 2014 edition)), their list is:

1. Samsung Galaxy Tab PRO 10.1
2. EVGA Tegra Note 7
3. Amazon Kindle Fire HD
4. Amazon Kindle Fire HDX
5. The Google Nexus 7
   

Or Amazon Best Sellers in Tablets:

1. Kindle Fire HD 7", HD
2. Apple iPad Mini 16GB
3. Apple iPad Mini 16GB
4. Apple IPAD AIR WI-FI
5. Cheapest Android KitKat
6. Apple Silver IPAD AIR WI-FI
7. Kindle Fire HD 7"
8. Apple 7.9-inch iPad Mini Retina
9. Apple IPAD AIR WI-FI 32GB
10. Asus Google Nexus 7

Now there is a pattern. People want something that has 7" screen. In ZDnet top-5 has only one 10" tablet, in Amazon #4, #6 and #9 are all iPad Airs with 10" screen. Everything else is 7".

It looks like iPhone has too small screen, because it is not 7". Feel free to say I'm wrong, but I think general consensus has it wrong. They're expecting iPhone to be something that it isn't.